I don’t think that’s the case. You can get 1TB drives from amazon.it for €53 ($70) [1] which closely mirrors prices in other European countries, for example Ger

I don’t think that’s the case. You can get 1TB drives from amazon.it for €53 ($70) [1] which closely mirrors prices in other European countries, for example Germany [2]. I didn’t even look for the cheapest drives, just the first one that came up. [1] http://www.amazon.it/Samsung-HD103SJ-Spinpoint-F3-HardDisk/dp/B002MQC0P8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1293702645&sr=8-2 http://www.amazon.it/Samsung-HD103SJ-Spinpoint-F3-HardDisk/d... [1] http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Spinpoint-HD103SJ-interne-Festplatte/dp/B002MQC0P8/ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1293702583&sr=1-3 http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Spinpoint-HD103SJ-interne-Festp...